After hearing Liu Jin's evaluation of religion, Emperor Hongzhi thought for a long time and nodded in approval.
Almost everywhere on the earth, religious and divine power is greater than secular political power. Only in the East, secular political power has always been greater than divine power. A large part of the reason for this is that emperors of all dynasties have maintained a high degree of vigilance in this regard.
There have been many incidents of extermination of Buddhism in history, largely because the development of Buddhist temple monks has seriously affected the normal development of society.
Monks and temples occupy a large amount of fertile land, a large number of people belong to Buddhism, do not engage in production, and enjoy the worship of believers, coupled with the fact that monks are infertile, etc., these have seriously hindered the progress and development of society.
This is also the reason why Buddhas were exterminated in history.
By uncovering the things preached by the monks, you can see its essence clearly. Although there is an aspect of persuading people to do good, it is more about making people content with the status quo and willing to suffer and suffer, so that they can have blessings after death. Or maybe
Only in the next life can you be reborn into a good family.
At the same time, through some special means, for example, Western Christianity says that you can use money to buy indulgences, so that you can alleviate your sins.
Buddhism in the Nanyang region encourages everyone to donate part of their annual income to temples, which can reduce the evil they have done. Offering incense to temples, etc. is also a kind of good deed.
In fact, the essence is the same, by deliberately creating something scary, and then describing the beauty of death and the afterlife, and then using things like indulgences to defraud wealth.
Essentially, they are not good things.
Perhaps only Chinese Taoism is relatively better, emphasizing purity and inaction, self-reliance, and no indulgences. It has built a huge system of immortals, but it tells you to practice and rank among the immortals.
Of course, it can also be said that Taoism is not mature yet and has not yet developed to the level of a world-class religion. If it really reaches that level, maybe it will be the same.
"Your Majesty, I have advised you on the matter of religion before. Our country, Ming Dynasty, should strictly prohibit the spread of all religions. Whether it is Buddhism, Taoism, or other foreign religions, we must strictly prohibit their spread in our country.
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"The news coming back from the Golden Continent is that in Europe, Christianity has ruled Europe for a very long time. The power of the Pope is far greater than that of the emperor of a secular country. He can even decide the life or death of the emperor of a country with a single word."
"In the Middle East, what we know now is that in the countries here, their emperor is both an emperor and a religious leader, generally called a sultan."
"In addition, here in Tianzhu, their religion divides people into three, six or nine levels, and the highest level of Brahman is the religious priest."
"With the expansion and development of the Ming Dynasty around the world, we should pay great attention to this aspect in advance. One is to strictly prohibit the spread of foreign religions and prohibit their missionaries from entering the Ming Dynasty."
"Secondly, severe crackdowns should be carried out on the places where they have already appeared. All those who can be evicted should be evicted, and those who cannot be evicted should also be cleared out."
"The third aspect is to vigorously promote and popularize our Chinese civilization, replace the original civilization with our splendid Chinese civilization, and establish the ideas of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism."
Talking about this matter, Liu Jin also expressed concern to Emperor Hongzhi again.
It is easy to conquer a place, but it is not easy to conquer a civilization.
When the Mongols were at their most powerful, they almost spanned the entire Eurasian continent and established an extremely vast territory. But did they really succeed?
Because of their lack of culture, they were quickly conquered by the powerful local civilization. Who conquered whom?
The Ming Dynasty was very powerful in all aspects, but the larger its territory and the wider the area it ruled, the more intense the collision with other powerful civilizations would be.
This kind of collision is not only a military, territorial, and economic collision, but also a collision in many aspects such as culture, civilization, spirituality, religion, etc., in all aspects.
Although the Chinese civilization is dazzling and Liu Jin believes that it has its own strong influence and conquest, paying great attention to this aspect from the beginning can reduce a lot of troubles for future generations.
"Hmm~"
"When you go back, write a detailed memorial. Then we will discuss it in the court and formulate a relevant law. By then, wherever we go in the Ming Dynasty, we can act in accordance with this law."
Emperor Hongzhi thought for a long time, nodded and said.
"Yes~"
Liu Jin nodded solemnly.
The Ming Dynasty did the same in the various provinces of Nanyang. It strictly implemented all aspects of Chinese civilization, changing Chinese surnames, taking Chinese names, using Mandarin, writing Chinese characters, and taking imperial examinations.
This is also true for the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty. Korea, Japan and Luzon are now implementing these policies very well, even when Liu Jin was fighting in Nanyang.
That is to focus on attacking those countries affected by civilizations from Tianzhu and the Middle East, blocking their path to the east, and even forcing them back in the future.
All this is done, naturally, to spread Chinese civilization, Chinese ideas and values. In the words of later generations, ideas and values are the most important things. Only those who have the same ideas and values can
can truly blend together.
"Your Majesty, the three cabinet ministers, the Minister of War, the Minister of Hubu, and the Minister of Officials are here to see you."
At this time, Xiao Jing came over and reminded.
"Xuan~"
When Emperor Hongzhi heard this, he nodded and said.
Soon, Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian, Liu Daxia, Ji Zhong, and Wang Hao arrived at Emperor Hongzhi's study. When they saw Liu Jin there, they immediately smiled on their faces.
"Everyone, sit down~"
Of course Emperor Hongzhi knew the reason why they came to him. They were all as anxious as ants on a hot pot, with anxiousness written on their faces. It was not about sending troops to the Western Regions.
"Your Majesty, Xu Jinjin, the governor of Gansu Province, just reported that Baiya, the son of King Zhongshun of Hami, colluded with his minister Abala to kill King Zhongshun of Shaanba, claiming to be Sultan, and rebelled against our Ming Dynasty and took refuge in Turpan. Mansu'er, the Sultan of Turpan, invaded our Jiayuguan Pass.
They burned, killed and looted, causing countless casualties in our Ming Dynasty."
Liu Daxia, Minister of the Ministry of War, wrote a memorial very seriously and said it seriously, with an extremely angry tone in his words.
"Baiya, the son of King Zhongshun, colluded with Abala to kill Shaanba?"
Emperor Hongzhi was shocked when he heard this.
Then he took the memorial and read it very quickly.
The cause of the matter is very simple. The Ming Dynasty is reforming its military system and implementing a compulsory military service system. Currently, two traditional things in the Ming Dynasty are that the military system has been completed in all regions.
Next, Emperor Hongzhi intended to reorganize the Hami Guard, taking away the military power of King Zhongshun, and then allowing King Zhongshun to be the same as the leader of the tribe on the grassland, and his family, old and young, came to the capital to enjoy the blessings. As for the Hami side,
, he stopped asking.
As for Shaanba, he is addicted to alcohol and has no ambitions. He also likes to bully his subordinates. On the one hand, he is very resistant to the military restructuring of the Ming Dynasty. On the other hand, he does not dare to challenge the military restructuring of the Ming Dynasty.
Say no.
But his son Bai Ya was not only very stupid and fatuous, but also very lecherous and cruel. Mansu'er from Turpan used some tricks to let him kill his father Shaba and stand on his own feet.
for Sudan.
Of course, all these measures taken by Baiya also won the support of his own tribe. Everyone on the Hamiwei side was worried that after the Ming Dynasty completed its restructuring of them, they would cross the river and destroy their bridges.
The leaders of these tribes would lose their original status and power, so they were extremely resistant and opposed to this. However, Shaanba had no ambitions, did not dare to resist the Ming Dynasty, and was not good to his subordinates.
Naturally, everyone would think of establishing another leader, and Baiya naturally became the most suitable candidate.
"That's unreasonable!"
After reading the memorial, Emperor Hongzhi threw it away angrily.
"This Mansu'er really thinks that I, Ming, are easy to bully."
Emperor Hongzhi was really angry. This Man Su'er was also an ambitious man.
He was the eldest son of Sultan Ahima of Turpan. In the eighth year of Hongzhi, Ahima came to power after his death. He has been pursuing the strategy of marching eastward to Hami and invading the Ming Dynasty.
From the eighth year of Hongzhi's reign to the eleventh year of Hongzhi's reign, Mansu'er did not continuously invade Gansu, Hami, and Jiayuguan in the Ming Dynasty. Although compared to the little Tatar prince, it was only a small fight, but Hongzhi still allowed Hongzhi to
The emperor remembered him firmly.
In the past few years, with the Ming Dynasty's strong military and national power, coupled with the continuous defeat of the little prince on the grassland and the defeat of the Heshuote tribe in the north, Mansu'er has been quiet for a few years.
Unexpectedly, he would now start to invade the Ming Dynasty again, and even Shaba, the loyal and shun king of the Hami Guard, was designed to be eliminated by him.
Although Shaanba was stupid and incompetent, he was still central to the Ming Dynasty. However, his son Baiya was a complete idiot. If he did this, the Ming Dynasty's power in Hami would be gone.
Originally, Hami was the bridgehead for Emperor Hongzhi to attack the Western Regions. The Hami Guards knew the Western Regions better. With the cooperation of the Hami Guards, it would be much easier to conquer the Western Regions.
Who knew that something like this would happen at this juncture.
"Your Majesty, Turpan has repeatedly invaded our Ming Dynasty, and the Hami Guards have always been swinging back and forth between our Ming Dynasty and Turpan. I, the Ming Dynasty, can't bear it, and use the rapid dispatch of troops to pacify Turpan, and severely punish the Hami Guards to serve as a warning to others!"
Seeing Emperor Hongzhi being furious, Xie Qian, Liu Daxia and others immediately looked at each other and quickly stood up to express their stance.
They were just waiting for this, waiting for an excuse and reason to use troops in the Western Regions.